[Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two

[G K Milner]

Dear Shane,
                  Richard Sorge, the Soviet intelligence agent, obtained his 
information with respect to the Japanese decision to attack the USA, rather 
than the USSR through Mongolia, earlier than I stated in an earlier message. 
Clearly the USSR was concerned that the Japanese might take advantage of the 
critical situation on their western front, after Barbarossa began.   Sorge 
obtained the information not in early December 1941, as I wrote, but in fact 
not long after the German invasion of the USSR began in June.   Stalin 
delayed acting on the information, but he finally transferred forces from 
the eastern frontier in early November 1941.

In the words of Guy Wint and Peter Calvocoressi, 'Total War: Causes and 
Courses of the Second World War': 'Reinforcements from the east, including 
1,700 tanks and 1,500 aircraft, reached Zhukhov on the Moscow front at the 
beginning of November at the point when the Russians had drained the last 
reserves from their training schools and the Germans thought that the 
Russians were finished'.

In solidarity,

Graham Milner

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Mage" <shmage at pipeline.com>
To: "Graham Milner" <gkmilner at eftel.net.au>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two


>
> On Jul 2, 2009, at 11:02 PM, S. Artesian wrote:
>>
>> And the German forces in Russia were not in retreat in December 1941.
>
> S.L.A. Marshall in Colliers Encyclopedia, v.23 p.613:
> "...resistance mounted ever higher, and the German power began to ebb
>>
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